Rookhowe Farmhouse and Attached, Stable, Byres, Barn and Wc is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 February 1962. A C18 Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Rookhowe Farmhouse and Attached, Stable, Byres, Barn and Wc
- WRENN ID
- iron-alcove-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 February 1962
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Rookhowe Farmhouse and Attached, Stable, Byres, Barn and Wc, Kentmere, Westmorland and Furness, LA8 9JL
- OS grid reference
- NY 459 044
- Coordinates
- 54.43291, -2.8353
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rookhowe Farmhouse is a farmhouse from the late 17th century or early 18th century, with later alterations. It has an attached stable with a hayloft above, a byre, a barn with a threshing floor, and a WC. The house features a limewashed roughcast render over stone rubble, while the outbuildings are made of stone rubble. The roof is covered with graduated green slate and has a stone ridge, with a chimney at one end. There is a small shelter shed at the front of the byre on the left, which is roofed with corrugated asbestos. The building is two storeys high and has three windows. The ground floor includes an early 19th-century fixed light window with a single opening pane, a late 19th-century casement window to the right, and two 19th-century casement windows to the left, one of which may have been enlarged for a fire window. The farmhouse has a gabled stone porch with a roof made of large slates, side benches, and a top-glazed and panelled door. Inside, there are chamfered beams and joists in the hall, flagstone floors, and a fire beam. The WC is a two-seater. An extension to the rear of the house and the outbuildings to the right dates from 1860.
Local climate
Rookhowe Farmhouse and Attached, Stable, Byres, Barn and Wc sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,480 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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